Peter paced the living room in front of the boys in various stages of being awake. Johnny was the most awake and Peter suspected it was because he hadn't gone to sleep yet.

"And you're sure it didn't see you?" Johnny asked, arms crossed watching Peter's agitated pace.

Peter stopped for a moment, "Pretty sure. It wasn't concerned about anything else. Just seemed to be exploring what it could do. Discovering it's strength."

Bobby rubbed his hands over his face in an attempt to wake up. "And Karen confirmed you weren't hallucinating?" When the other four stared at him in disbelief that he would even ask that, he shrugged. "What...I wanted to go ahead and rule it out. Let's face it, if any of us were hallucinating I don't think it would be seen as odd at this point. Peter is doing free falls that would freak out anyone, Johnny isn't sleeping, Wyatt is researching everything he can get his hands on, Davis is experimenting with his abilities, and I am spending way too much time in the gym. Hallucinations are only a matter of time."

The rest of them knew he wasn't necessarily wrong, they just didn't like it being shoved into their face. Peter started pacing again. "I'm wasn't hallucinating Bobby. I had Karen check."

"I think it's fairly obvious who it is, I just don't understand why." Wyatt picked up a tablet and pulled up a map of downtown looking at the area Karen had marked indicating where the creature had been. He looked up to find everyone staring at him. "What? I mean it's obviously Harry. I just don't understand why."

Peter frowned. He had been so freaked out he hadn't even thought through who it might be. Harry made a lot of sense now that Wyatt said it. "Harry."

"Yeah. I mean let's start with how he's been acting. I'm surprised Gwen hasn't decked him yet." Wyatt looked over at Peter. "Didn't you say that the data they got from Norman shows that the morphing serum was affecting his brain?" He waited for Peter to nod. "And if anyone would have had access to a cloud server it would have been family." He looked between Peter and Johnny. "Johnny shares a server with Sue and you and Tony share multiple servers. There's a good chance Harry had your file."

Peter sank down onto the sofa. The leap that Wyatt was making was logical. Harry has his file. "If it's Harry then that means he's tied in with Ross, our fixer, Amanda, and Basil. How does that even happen?"

Davis sat down next to Peter. "Well, there's one way to find out." He looked at the group. "Full op. Listening devices, tail him, the whole thing."

Peter sucked in a breath. "Ok, what do we have here? I've got a handful of spider drones & trackers. I can probably make more. We can place them at his apartment, on his car. I've got a smaller one to put maybe somewhere on him or in his backpack."

Wyatt nodded, "Nat gave me some surveillance gear to play around with."

Johnny nodded, "I've got statistics with him. I'll take care of the tagging him. Once we track his schedule one of us can plant a drone in his apartment. The car should be easy."

Peter leaned back and rubbed a hand over his face and looked at Wyatt. "We should probably tell Nat, Steve, and dad, right?"

Wyatt nodded, "Oh definitely. I've been warned multiple times not to, and I quote, 'let Peter pull the crap about not telling anyone about the situation until he's in the middle of a fight because he wants all the answers first'." Wyatt grinned, "There is no way I'm getting on Nat's bad side, although I can appreciate your stance on wanting to know what's going on first."

Johnny laughed, "We just need to make sure we make our case that this does not need to be a full Avenger op."

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"If you're calling all of us at the same time, something happened." Steve stated the obvious and looked at the five boys in the video screen. Nat was next to him in the command center and Tony was in a separate screen.

"We didn't want to have to explain this multiple times." Peter recognized the look on his dad's face but forged on without commenting. "This is from last night." Peter played the feed showing the creature. He had debated stripping the audio out but his dad would have known and gotten a hold of the original footage. If he thought Peter was overly bothered by the encounter there's no way he would be on board with letting them run with this on their own.

Nat let out the breath she had unconsciously been holding the video was over. She hadn't expected to see the creature again. "Well we know it's not Osborn. I'm assuming you have a theory?"

Peter nodded and glanced over at Wyatt. "We think it's Harry. He's been acting off lately and it's possible he would have had access to his father's servers."

Steve leaned back. "What do you have in mind?"

Wyatt spoke up, "Surveillance. See what it gets us. We can make the logical leap that it's Harry we just can't figure out why or how he's tied in with Ross, our fixer, or Basil."

Peter looked over at Johnny. They had debated about whether to let them know that Firebrand was back. Peter and Johnny both were on the side of not saying anything, although Peter thought they had completely different motivations. Wyatt and Davis had voted for full disclosure. Bobby had been the tie breaker and had ultimately decided to side with Peter and Johnny. So for now, she was staying off everyone's radar.

"If we let you run with this there are ground rules."

Peter turned back to Steve. "Of course."

Nat leaned in front of Steve. "You will not make a move. This is intel gathering only. And, we want access to the video and audio feeds."

"Easy enough to accomplish. Karen can link of the feed. We're planning on using the spider drones." Peter focused on his dads face. So far he had been uncharacteristically quiet.

"Tony, what do you think?" Steve leaned back in his chair.

"Oh, I hate the idea. But I'm leaning towards letting them do it." He looked at the boys. "The only reason I'm considering this is because I think the danger is mitigated by the fact that Harry is still learning how to use his new found abilities. I would rather see if we can find out what's going on instead of waiting for the next thing to happen. We've been able to gather a little bit of intel through outside channels but not enough to paint a full picture. None of you are to go anywhere by yourselves and none of you are to take any risks. Am I clear?"

A chorus of 'yes sirs' sounded from the boys. Peter looked at the screen. "So we're good to proceed?"

Natasha smiled. "Sounds like it. Let me know if you have trouble with any of the equipment."

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Peter had just enough time to walk into his bedroom before his phone rang. Flipping it over to the video screen he sighed, "Dad..."

"Kid...". Tony looked at Peter, he seemed less stressed than he had last night but he wasn't sure if that was a good thing.

"I know what you're going to say...". Peter cut him off. He had been rehearsing this conversation in his head since they made the decision to tell them what was going on.

"I don't think you do."

"You think we should should let you handle it. But we're not planning on doing anything. We just want to try to see if we can find out what's going on. There's only been a handful of times when any of us have been anywhere on our own since spring break. We'll make sure there's always at least two of us together now. We can do this dad." Peter realized his well rehearsed arguments came out in one breath and hadn't really followed the logical course he had laid out in his head.

Tony sighed. "I said I'd let you do it. But Pete, I know what Osborn did to you, remember? I know you still have problems dealing with it. Facing Harry is just going to stir all of that back up. That's what I'm worried about." Tony looked at Peter. "You five can handle this. You've been trained well. I just want to make sure it doesn't cost you more than you think it will."

Peter looked at his dad. He had expected his argument to center more around the threat of the unknown, not old ghosts. "It freaked me out a little when I saw it." He knew his dad had picked up on his increased heart rate from the video. "But I'm ok. I know he's dead. And I will let you know if I start struggling with it."

Tony studied Peter face. "How much do the others know?"

"All of it. After what happened in California I told them everything I remember and some of the stuff you all filled in." Peter let his dads eyes, "Please let me do this. If I run from it now I'll be running from it the rest of my life."

Tony knew Peter was right but he wanted nothing more than to protect him from all of it. "If you start having nightmares again I want a call...doesn't matter what time. And you cannot just stay awake."

Peter grinned. "I will call you if I start having problems again."

Tony sighed. "You and I know that despite your honest intention for this not to turn into a confrontation that's what's going to end up happening, right?"

Peter nodded. "There's five of us. You said it yourself, were well trained."

"I want to hear from you multiple times a day."

"Dad, I will call you so much you'll get sick of me. Just surveillance. It'll be fine."